Throne Quotes

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.